Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic & extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod, has been amenable & intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. ` It is one of the places in the world you can disappear into. It is the Morocco of North America, the New Orleans of the north.` Michael Cunningham first came to the place more than twenty years ago, falling in love with the haunted beauty of its seascape & the rambunctious charm of its denizens. As well as a summer mecca of stunning beaches, quirky shops, & wild nightlife, & a popular destination for gay men & lesbians, it is also a place of deep & enduring history, artistic & otherwise. Few towns have attracted such an impressive array of artists & writers
- from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O` Neill, Mark Rothko to Robert Motherwell
- who, like Cunningham, were attracted to this finger of land because it was...different. As we follow Cunningham on his various excursions through Provincetown & its surrounding landscape, we are drawn into its history, its mysteries, its peculiarities
- places you won`t read about in any conventional travel guide.